DECLARING
AND EXCHANGING
Declaring and exchanging are an absolute must for obtaining safety results that meet our expectations. Following recurrent audits in the agencies to check compliance with safety rules, simple and effective tools were implemented by the General services team to facilitate information feedback to employees.
Incident declarations
Incidents are potentially dangerous events that occurred during a work day and caused no harm.
All incidents must be flagged up in order to be addressed. An incident that is not addressed can rapidly become an accident, and it is therefore mandatory to escalate all incidents to stop this from happening!
Employees have two options for escalating information: via an application installed on all professional cell phones, or via feedback sheet on the internal blog.
OBJECTIVE
90 declarations per month
Audits
Several types of audits are performed:
Internal (by Facility services):
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Health, Safety and Environment audit: visit to all agencies once a year, and HSE audit conducted on an online platform developed by V2V.
Objective: ensure instructions are respected and check the image conveyed to the client on site.
Verification of legally-required signage, safety minutes, inspection of trolleys/ride-on machinery, etc.
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Infrastructure audit: verification of the condition of buildings and the work environment.
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Worksite audit: consists of work shadowing a technician and making sure s/he respects safety instructions in his/her work.
External :
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MASE: person outside the company who ensures that the reference technical standards are respected.
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When the audits are completed, corrective actions are scheduled. The Plan-Do-Check-Act method is used. A continuous analysis is performed to determine the root causes and reduce the number of incidents and accidents.
Safety Talks
A safety talk is an opportunity for several V2V employees to discuss and share their points of view on a safety theme.
An online app can be used to record the safety talk and the people present. An employee can organize a safety talk at any time, and invite his/her colleagues. In many agencies, one or two days a week are given over to safety talks.
OBJECTIVE
90 safety talks per month
Training
At V2V, all employees take a safety training curriculum when they join the company.
This curriculum comprises a core program (road risks, gestures and postures, fire etc.) and a section specific to the employee's job (driving, loading, unloading etc.). This training is delivered as an e-learning course (developed by V2V in partnership with organizations such as occupational health or the INRS) and includes practical exercises. All V2V training courses are validated by competency assessment tests.
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Six safety instructors, certified by external agencies, have also been trained to conduct all practical driving courses (bridge cranes, loading equipment, etc.). There are currently more than 30 training/awareness-raising courses in our catalog.
More than 500 hours of safety training were delivered in 2018.